Hi Guys,I have a bunch of TV shows I have recorded and these play fine via the server, however I was getting sick of hearing the same intro over and over again so I made a bunch of avs files which just trimmed out the intro.

These play fine on the computer.Does PS3 Media Server support avs files? (I can't browse to them on the XMB)I know there are settings for avisynth in the transcoders, but they're more global and the intro isn't always the same length. I also don't want to re-encode the original files as I'd like to keep them with the intro in (just not every time I play them on the PS3) and I don't really like the idea of having two different versions taking up HDD space.So really being able to play avs files would be fantastic.Thanks,HD

Edit: I've already tried vfapi and makeAVIs to wrap them, and although these play on the computer the PS3 complains they are corrupt

will play frames 0 to 100, then skip 101 to 999, then play the rest of the show. This enables me to see the beginning of the story, skip the intro and then watch the rest. I already have the frames/times that I want to skip

Depending on your platform, you may need to experiment with the path of the EDL file (relative paths like the one above will be relative to the PMS home directory) and/or the "contains" string.

If you know that your renderer can handle the file without transcoding, you can also experiment with the "-oac copy" and "-ovc copy" options to reduce the overhead, though they might be incompatible with the "-edl" option.

It works fine for me on Linux with an oldish (April 2009) MEncoder. You'll probably have to wrangle backslashes on Windows. And don't forget to follow the instructions above to force PMS to use MEncoder where necessary (you can see if it is/isn't being used by checking the debug.log).

As you can see, I have replaced each backslash with the java File.separator (case is important) in the first half of the string and replaced the backslashes with forward slashes in the second half. This means it should also work on *nix, BSD etc or any other OS, but since they use forward slashes I wouldn't bother. I have made these lists by getting a file system listing which would give me